PEACE & CONCILIATION PROJECT

​The Peace and Conciliation Project is a city-by-city initiative designed to engage communities in addressing the roots of structural and institutional racism through actionable dialogue and constructive change.

This project will require the partnership of the mayor and council of each participating city in order to be successful at achieving its mission of acknowledging, atoning for and addressing the harm that has been committed against African-Americans and Native Americans since the inception of this nation and the many groups of people over the course of the last two and half centuries.

​The Peace and Conciliation Project aims to create a platform from which sustainable peace may emerge so that all Americans are able to experience justice and equality and enjoy lives of dignity free of fear.

A two-day conference designed to educate, motivate, and inspire positive change and healing in North Texas.

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​Why We Need The Peace & Conciliation ProjectThe United States of America was founded on the enlightened principles that all men are created equal and that all men have the right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. Yet, the land that became the United States of America was stolen — through genocide, slavery, and relocation — from an indigenous people who had occupied it for tens of thousands of years. And the American economy was largely built on the backs of stolen people from Africa in the form of slavery, which persisted for hundreds of years in this country and continues today in a revised and modernized form. The intent and vision of the American forefathers was lofty and enlightened for its time, but the consciousness that created it was mired in oppression. Something enlightened and good cannot be created from evil, and the acts committed against indigenous Americans and Africans were profoundly immoral and malevolent, benefiting white American lives at the expense of Native American and African lives. Over the course of the next two hundred years, this consciousness of oppression manifested through continued harm directed toward Native Americans and African-Americans and additional harms committed against Asian immigrants and Asian Americans, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans, as well as harm directed toward people of Latin American descent, people of Middle Eastern descent as well as those of the Islamic faith.

The Peace and Conciliation Project is designed to bring to light the atrocities committed against individuals who have been harmed by the laws, policies, culture, and actions of the United States through constructive and actionable dialogue that will result in reparations for these communities and create the space for all Americans to move forward in unity so that we may collectively reimagine a new American experience founded in justice, equality, and, ultimately sustainable peace.

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​The Peace & Conciliation Project Creates Space for AtonementIf America is to achieve the potential imagined by our forefathers as a nation where all people are created equal and all people have equal access to the opportunities that bring forth life, liberty, and the ability to pursue happiness, then Americans must atone for the human rights violations, the crimes committed against our fellow brothers and sisters, the oppression and the false sense of equality that has arisen in the 21st century. In order to see the world anew, we must create a shift in consciousness. And that shift in consciousness is what the Peace and Conciliation Project is designed to bring forth.

This project aims to facilitate a dialogue process that will surface the truth of our nation’s history so that we may atone for it. The project operates with the foundational belief that there is nothing unpatriotic or un-American about being boldly honest about our shared history. There is nothing dishonorable about being truthful about our ancestors’ actions. In fact, the project asserts that the most patriotic and honorable action we can take as Americans in the 21st century is to take a bold and honest look at our history so that we can atone, and consciously and collectively create a more perfect union.

The Peace and Conciliation Project is an attempt to atone for the wrong that has been done to millions of people throughout the history of this nation. To atone is to repair a wrongdoing or an injury to another person. Atonement requires that we look at ourselves as extensions of one another and in so doing acknowledge that any action taken to uplift or to suppress one another has a reciprocal effect on oneself. Atonement requires that we elevate our consciousness.

The process of atonement must involve sincere and full apologies to those people who have been harmed and engage those communities in naming the harm, addressing the wounds, and repairing the harm.